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Bill	Forensic examinations: domestic violence.	Existing law requires the Office of Emergency Services to establish medical forensic forms, instructions, and examination protocols for victims of domestic violence and elder and dependent adult abuse and neglect based on the guidelines for those forms as they relate to sexual assault. Existing law requires the forms to have a place for notation of specified information, including a patient history of domestic violence or elder or dependent adult abuse and neglect.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2185	California AB 2185 (20212022)	bill	Forensic examinations: domestic violence.	enacted	Akilah Weber	9	30	9	2022-02-15	2022-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/f974d2c8-faf7-471b-bbee-2382fce87384	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2185	ae6c21f2141e90b6c766bf9481e5814f39844d8a01d16d98985f18456d3be9f7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2185 (20212022) — Forensic examinations: domestic violence.

Existing law requires the Office of Emergency Services to establish medical forensic forms, instructions, and examination protocols for victims of domestic violence and elder and dependent adult abuse and neglect based on the guidelines for those forms as they relate to sexual assault. Existing law requires the forms to have a place for notation of specified information, including a patient history of domestic violence or elder or dependent adult abuse and neglect.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/15/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/16/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/24/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/19/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/01/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/11/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/27/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2185 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/26/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent AB2185 — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2185 Akilah Weber Assembly Third Reading — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2185 Akilah Weber Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Akilah Weber — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2022-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2022-02-24 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2022-03-16 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-03-17 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2022-03-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 22). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-03-24 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2022-04-27 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-05-19 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 19). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2022-05-19 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4977.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-01 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2022-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-06-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-08-01 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-08-08 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2022-08-11 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-22 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2022-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 4986.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-23 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2022-08-24 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
• 2022-08-24 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 557, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f974d2c8-faf7-471b-bbee-2382fce87384. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).